He therefore chose four cardinals, whose
united
deliberations
might appease these troubles, and he imagined that
he could establish in Rome a form of government that should be durable.
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Petrarch |
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He who shall simply sing, with however glowing enthusiasm, or with
however vivid a truth of description, of the sights, and sounds, and
odors, and colors, and
sentiments
which greet _him _in common with all
mankind--he, I say, has yet failed to prove his divine title.
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Poe - 5 |
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Thee better
fortunes
wait,
Among the virtuous few--the truly great!
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Petrarch |
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For only a few may go there
And they but once may go,
With glamour of stars above them
And the
swinging
seas below.
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Tennyson |
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"But at the brook we'll meet,
That ripples down the
boundary
line;
There you may wed, and Heaven shall see't.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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BROADWAY
THIS is the quiet hour; the theaters
Have
gathered
in their crowds, and steadily
The million lights blaze on for few to see,
Robbing the sky of stars that should be hers.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Soone as the port from farre he has espide,
His
chearefull
whistle merrily doth sound,
And Nereus crownes with cups?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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332-337) to draw a
portrait
of himself.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sunt alii loci ubi ex _R_
confirmatur
lectio quam aut solus aut cum
paucissimis praestat _O_; X 3 tunc _O et R m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Not all the blood at
Talavera
shed,
Not all the marvels of Barossa's fight,
Not Albuera lavish of the dead,
Have won for Spain her well-asserted right.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy;
White privets fall, dark
hyacinths
are culled.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In 1847 Emerson was invited to read lectures in England, and remained
abroad a year, visiting France also in her
troublous
times.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
'Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Vanished
quite
Is all that tender vision now;
And, like lost snow-flakes in the night,
Mute are the lovers as their vow.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Today, we know,
The Cossacks are
unjustly
persecuted,
Oppressed; but if God grant us to ascend
The throne of our forefathers, then as of yore
We'll gratify the free and faithful Don.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ai
schullen
on er?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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and stoop to sue for a Numidian
marriage
among those whom
already over and over I have disdained for husbands?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Therefore
let each adore a parent's trust,
And each with loyalty revere the guest
That in his halls doth rest.
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Aeschylus |
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Knowing I know not how Na
Audiart
Thou wert once she,
For whose
fairness
one forgave, Que be-m vols mal.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I observe
This
sportive
band of Satyrs near the caves.
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Shelley |
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And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he
breathed
his vow,
I felt my bosom swell--
For the words rang as a knell,
And the voice seemed _his_ who fell
In the battle down the dell,
And who is happy now.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Queen of double
Empires!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away
or re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License
included with this eBook or online at http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious
clusters
of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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Then the
bowsprit
got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Nor by
prolonging
life
Take we the least away from death's own time,
Nor can we pluck one moment off, whereby
To minish the aeons of our state of death.
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Lucretius |
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And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so
peacefully!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Lending money upon interest, and increasing it by usury, 142 is unknown amongst them: and this
ignorance
more effectually prevents the practice than a prohibition would do.
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Tacitus |
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raynde]]
221
And droffe ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Scarce human seem I, moving through the skies,
And far removed from warlike enterprise--
Like some great gull on high
Whose white and
gleaming
wings beat on through space.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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" If
it is
desirable
to print these poems, in such an edition as this, it is
equally desirable to separate them from those which Wordsworth himself
sanctioned in his final edition of 1849-50.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Eumelus' steeds, high bounding in the chase,
Still, as at first, unrivall'd lead the race:
I well discern him, as he shakes the rein,
And hear his shouts
victorious
o'er the plain.
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Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Botte I toe warr mie doeynges moste atturne,
To cheere the
Sabbataneres
to deere dede.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Sometimes he is sure she is
deficient
in understanding, and
at others that her temper only is in fault.
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Deficient. |
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Why does he sometimes think she is deficient in understanding and at other times believe her temper is the problem? |
Answer: |
He sometimes thinks she is deficient in understanding and at other times believes her temper is the problem because Lady Susan has been manipulating his judgment and trying to make him believe that Frederica is to blame for her own actions. Additionally, Miss Summers' testimony contradicts Lady Susan's claims, making it difficult for Reginald to fully trust either side. |
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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J'ai vu le soleil bas tache d'horreurs mystiques
Illuminant de longs figements violets,
Pareils a des acteurs de drames tres antiques,
Les flots roulant au loin leurs
frissons
de volets;
J'ai reve la nuit verte aux neiges eblouies,
Baisers montant aux yeux des mers avec lenteur,
La circulation des seves inouies
Et l'eveil jaune et bleu des phosphores chanteurs.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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those less
imperious
voices, hands
Not half so cruel as thine, those earthlier forms!
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Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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MARMADUKE
Beloved!
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Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
)
But what new trouble
disturbs
dear Oenone?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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She, that me taught to love, and suffer pain;
My doubtful hope, and eke my hot desire
With shamefaced cloak to shadow and restrain,
Her smiling grace
converteth
straight to ire.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Mercifull
Heauen:
What man, ne're pull your hat vpon your browes:
Giue sorrow words; the griefe that do's not speake,
Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it breake
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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After some words Charles bounded at the General's throat and
sought to
strangle
him.
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Erdman has
recoverd
a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx Jerusalem ?
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Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Pandarus wounds him with an arrow, but the goddess cures him, enables him
to discern gods from mortals, and prohibits him from contending with any
of the former,
excepting
Venus.
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Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and
indicative
hand?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Whitman |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Source: |
Villon |
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The willow leaves
Silverly
stir on the breath of moving water,
Birch-leaves, beyond them, twinkle, and there on the hill,
And the hills beyond again, and the highest hill,
Serrated pines, in the dusk, grow almost black.
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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A cavalryman of the
little
garrison
in the town was talking to Kami's cook.
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Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Note: Pound utilises an issue of
translation
regarding the last line of verse 1, E jois le grans, e l'olors d'enoi gandres in Canto XX.
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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2 This refers to the famous visit of the Prince of Wu to Lu, recounted in the Zuo
Tradition
(Xiang 29).
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Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Were you given me to lose my
Chimene?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Welcome this hallowed still
retreat!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
XXXV
awes one with the spirit of a modem Junius;"*
but there are many passages of very
powerful
reasoning, in advocacy of truths then but ill under-
stood, and of rights which had been shamefully
violated.
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Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border
life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and
transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state
into whose
territories
I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.
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Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Our relief came from the
greediness
of the enemy, who ceased
slaying to seize the spoil: hence the legions had respite to struggle
into the fair field and firm ground.
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Source: |
Tacitus |
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Wherefore
again, again,
Even as I say, there is a joint delight.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lucretius |
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Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,
"When all the Temple is prepared within,
"Why nods the drowsy
Worshiper
outside?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Ever hath Maenalus his
murmuring
groves
And whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
Of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
Brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Or ache with tremendous
decisions?
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But not the genial feast, nor flowing bowl,
Could charm the cares of Nestor's watchful soul;
His startled ears the
increasing
cries attend;
Then thus, impatient, to his wounded friend:
"What new alarm, divine Machaon, say,
What mix'd events attend this mighty day?
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Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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'
With
imprecations
thus he fill'd the air,
And angry Neptune heard the unrighteous prayer,
A larger rock then heaving from the plain,
He whirl'd it round: it sung across the main;
It fell, and brush'd the stern: the billows roar,
Shake at the weight, and refluent beat the shore.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Under such conditions Jelaluddin,
Jami, Attar, and others sang; using Wine and Beauty indeed as Images
to illustrate, not as a Mask to hide, the
Divinity
they were
celebrating.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base
subjects
light?
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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This be thy safe-guard sole; this
conquest
needs to be conquered; 15
This thou must do, thus act, whether thou cannot or can.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The sweetest sonnets of Belleau,
Offered by gallants ere they fight
For your delight;
And many fawning rhymers who
Inscribe
their first thin book to you
Will contemplate upon the stair
Your slipper fair;
And many a page who plays at cards,
And many lords and many bards,
Will watch your going forth, and burn
For your return;
And you will count before your glass
More kisses than the lily has;
And more than one Valois will sigh
When you pass by.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
In the
beginning, therefore, he has little of Pug's thirst for adventure,
but his object is at bottom the same, 'to goe and dwell among these
religious men for to
maintaine
them the longer in their ungracious
living'.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Man: I know your
friendly
minds and--O what noise!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Milton |
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Nor content with such
Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart 400
Of Solomon he led by fraud to build
His Temple right against the Temple of God
On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove
The
pleasant
Vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence
And black Gehenna call'd, the Type of Hell.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Milton |
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With honest fervour I commend
Those lips, those eyes; you need not fear
A rival,
hurrying
on to end
His fortieth year.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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e fals[e]
opiniou{n}
of folk.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
"Still rule those minds on earth
At whom sage Milton's
wormwood
words were hurled:
'_Truth like a bastard comes into the world_
_Never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth_'?
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Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Villon |
|
From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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O
senseless
Lycius!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
All the napery
Was Friesland's famous make; and fair to see
The dishes, silver-gilt and
bordered
round
With flowers; for fruit, here strawberries were found
And citrons, apples too, and nectarines.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
_ This ends not thus,
The
oracular
fate ordains.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
He was 59
all-powerful among the Batavi,[113] and Vitellius did not want to
alienate so spirited a people by
punishing
him.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Tacitus |
|
4015
Thou dost gret foly for to leve
Bialacoil
here-in, to calle
The yonder man to shenden us alle.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then, resting on the threshold of the gate,
Against a cypress pillar lean'd his weight
Smooth'd by the workman to a polish'd plane);
The
thoughtful
son beheld, and call'd his swain
"These viands, and this bread, Eumaeus!
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Zeus, Taureau, sur son cou berce comme un enfant
Le corps nu d'Europe, qui jette son bras blanc
Au cou nerveux du Dieu
frissonnant
dans la vague,
Il tourne lentement vers elle son oeil vague;
Elle, laisse trainer sa pale joue en fleur
Au front de Zeus; ses yeux sont fermes; elle meurt
Dans un divin baiser, et le flot qui murmure
De son ecume d'or fleurit sa chevelure.
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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Blake - Poems |
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"
DAMOETAS
"How lean my bull amid the
fattening
vetch!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And, in the summer's heat,
Lay not your hand on it, for while the iron hours beat
Gray anvils in the sky, it glows again
With
unfulfilled
desire.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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ipsa leui flatu
refouens
pendentia membra
Aura per extremas resonauit flebile rupis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
smallest
housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made existence home!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Of late I have been
studying
with diligence the four prose poems about
Christ.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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flumina quin etiam te norunt omnia patrem,
te potant nubes ut reddant
frugibus
imbris;
Cyaneoque sinu caeli tu diceris oras
partibus ex cunctis inmensas cingere nexu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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